Lime

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Wild lime fruits, Sarasota Jungle Gardens, Sarasota, Florida.

Lime primarily refers to:

• Lime (fruit), a green citrus fruit
• Lime (material), a general term for inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide

Lime may also refer to:

Botany

• Key lime
• Persian lime
• Australian lime
• Wild lime or Zanthoxylum fagara, a green fruit native to the Americas
• Tilia, a genus of trees known in Britain as lime trees

Chemistry

• Agricultural lime, a soil additive containing calcium carbonate and other ingredients
• Calcium hydroxide, aka slaked lime, slack lime, limewater, pickling lime or hydrated lime
  • Hydraulic lime, used to make lime mortar
  • Limewater, saturated calcium hydroxide solution
• Calcium oxide, aka burnt lime or quicklime
• Birdlime, a sticky substance spread on branches to trap small birds

Geography

• Lime, Oregon, USA
• Limé, a French commune in the Aisne departments
• Lime Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA
• Lime Lake Township, Minnesota, USA
• Lime Lake, a lake in Murray County, Minnesota, USA
• Orio al Serio Airport, ICAO code LIME

Media and entertainment

• Lime (magazine), an Asian lifestyle magazine
• Lime Pictures, a TV production company
• Lime TV, a website and former television network
• Limes (magazine), an Italian geopolitical magazine
• Lime, a sister brand of the Japanese adult video game company Navel
• Lime, a Saber Marionette J character

Music

• Lime (band), a Canadian synthpop duo
• Lime (Korean singer), Kim Hye-lim (born 1993), South Korean female singer, a member of the girl group Hello Venus
• Lime (Arvingarna album)

Technology

• LIME, an acronym for 'Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment', used in the Internet industry
• LIME (Cable & Wireless), a Caribbean telecommunications company
• Lime (software), a PHP testing framework

Other

• Lime (color), a color between yellow and green
• Limes, a border marking and defense system of the ancient Roman Empire

See also

• Lime Creek (disambiguation)
• Lime Ridge (disambiguation)
• Lemon (disambiguation)
• Lima (disambiguation)
• Limestone
• Liming (disambiguation)
• Lyme (disambiguation)